Job Description

Solution Architect

Epsom & Barbican, London | Hybrid Working | Technology | Fixed-Term Contract: 6 Month Contract | Full Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is building a healthier nation through its hospitals, fitness centres, and community programmes, all focused on improving the UK’s wellbeing.

We’re committed to delivering outstanding customer and patient experiences, with digital services at the heart of this ambition. Driven by purpose and quality, we put people first, starting with you.

Join us as a Solution Architect and lead the transformation of our HR and Finance platforms, designing solutions to transition from legacy systems to Workday. You’ll ensure architectures are aligned to enterprise standards and support our wider goals of improving care, experience, efficiency, and impact.

As our Solution Architect, you will:

• Lead technical discovery, analysing existing applications, platforms, and infrastructure across the estate

• Develop a clear understanding of current-state architecture, including dependencies, data flows, and integration points

• Define target and transitional architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and programme objectives

• Assess how systems and services need to be adapted, enhanced, or replaced to meet future capability needs

• Design and lead system integrations, including APIs, messaging patterns, and data exchange mechanisms

• Create high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, diagrams, and interface specifications

• Collaborate with delivery teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers to ensure solutions are practical and deliverable

• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the lifecycle

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable

• Present designs to Technical Design Authority (TDA), incorporating feedback and securing approval

• Support the transition into delivery, providing ongoing architectural assurance and guidance

You’ll bring strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and transformation experience across enterprise platforms.

To succeed as a Solution Architect, you’ll bring:

• Proven experience designing and delivering HR and Finance systems, ideally within complex enterprise environments

• Strong experience in Workday implementations

• Experience in HR and Finance transformation and service modernisation

• Experience working with third-party solution providers and vendors

• A track record of using architecture principles to improve both user experience and backend capability

• Strong knowledge of API-centric architectures and integration strategies

• Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver against tight timelines

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences

• Confidence operating across organisational, technical, and stakeholder boundaries

• A strategic mindset, able to see the bigger picture and align architecture to long-term business objectives

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.